cheio

Portuguese

Alternative forms

cheo, cheyo (obsolete)
tcheio (North Portugal)
chêi (Caipira)

Etymology

Earlier cheo. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chẽo, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).

Compare Galician cheo, Spanish lleno, Catalan ple, French plein, Italian pieno, Romanian plin, and English full. Doublet of pleno, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃej.u/ [ˈʃeɪ̯.u]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃej.o/ [ˈʃeɪ̯.o]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɐj.u/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃej.u/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃej.u/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃe.u/

Rhymes: -eju, -ɐju, -eu
Hyphenation: chei‧o

Adjective

cheio (feminine cheia, masculine plural cheios, feminine plural cheias, comparable, comparative mais cheio, superlative o mais cheio or cheiíssimo, diminutive cheiinho)

full, filled, completed
Synonyms: repleto, completo, lotado, pleno

Antonym: vazio

A rua está cheia de trânsito. ― The street is full of traffic.

Estou cheio. ― I'm full (not hungry anymore).

uma mão cheia ― a handful, a fistful
covered
Synonym: coberto

A rua está cheia de óleo.
The street is covered with oil.
(figurative) fed up, tired, annoyed
Synonym: farto

Estou cheio dele. ― I'm fed up with him.

Derived terms

rechear

Descendants

Guinea-Bissau Creole: tciu
Kabuverdianu: tcheu, cheiu

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈkejo]

Noun

cheio f

vocative singular of cheie

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